Shaun
Campbell.

Roles

1. January 2026 — Present Staff Software Engineer MinuteBox Inc. Toronto, Ontario, Canada(remote)

   Joined MinuteBox as a Staff Software Engineer, working across product engineering and engineering effectiveness. Alongside hands-on development, I’m helping introduce AI-assisted development practices to improve team velocity.

   • Building and designing services in TypeScript and Go on GCP.
   • Driving adoption of AI-assisted development workflows using Claude, OpenAI, and OpenRouter.
   • Providing technical direction across engineering practices.
2. November 2023 — December 2025 Head of Engineering Scout Climate →Scout Grants San Francisco, CA, USA(remote)

   I joined shortly after the company spun out of Forum Ventures, initially working alongside the founder to turn complex government-grant requirements into an early product and technical platform. As the company grew, I led engineering, technical strategy, infrastructure, and delivery.

   • Built the first product with a Svelte frontend and Python backend.
   • Set technical direction and led backend engineering, infrastructure, and DevOps.
   • Grew and led the engineering team as the company evolved from Scout Climate to Scout Grants.
   • Owned technical delivery across product development, cloud infrastructure, and SOC 2 compliance.
3. March 2020 — November 2023 Senior Software Developer → Staff Software Engineer Kira Systems →Zuva Inc. Toronto, Ontario, Canada(remote)

   Joined a newly formed two-person product team within Kira Systems, building a new Go API product alongside the company’s existing Clojure platform. After that team spun out to form Zuva, I progressed to Staff Engineer, led technical delivery, and briefly managed an engineering team of approximately five people.

   • Built Go services and GitHub Actions delivery pipelines from scratch.
   • Designed document-processing workflows with Knative and Azure.
   • Led technical delivery across the team and managed approximately five engineers during a period of organizational transition.
4. March 2018 — January 2020 Consulting Engineer → Senior Consulting Engineer MongoDB London, England, UK(remote)

   Worked directly with enterprise customers across Europe on architecture, performance, data modelling, migrations, and production issues. Engagements ranged from short technical workshops to longer-term consulting with organisations operating demanding, high-volume systems.

   • Led technical consulting engagements with customer engineering teams across Europe.
   • Designed data models and improved application use of MongoDB client libraries.
   • Diagnosed schema, query, and performance issues in high-volume production systems.
   • Guided migrations from on-premise MongoDB deployments to MongoDB Atlas and private-cloud environments.
   • Delivered technical training and hands-on implementation support to customer teams.
5. June 2011 — March 2018 Graduate Software Engineer → Senior Software Engineer Memex Technology Ltd. →SAS R&D Scotland Glasgow, Scotland, UK

   I began as a graduate engineer at Memex and progressed to Senior Engineer after the company became SAS R&D Scotland. The role ranged from public-safety deployments and performance testing to backend services for SAS Visual Investigator and event-streaming products.

   • Supported production deployments, upgrades, disaster recovery, and data ingestion alongside a UK police force.
   • Worked across C server applications, Java services, and C# UI extensions.
   • Built performance-test agents and early automated testing infrastructure.